RANGOON DISTRICT OF THE IRRAWADDY DELTA. 345 
I propose to describe this presumably new species under the 
above name, dedicating it to my valued friend, the Rev. 
Professor Haughton, of Trinity College, Dublin, whose labors 
have done so much to enlarge the field of Natural History 
research. 
The species appears to be decidedly rare throughout the entire 
district. I have never seen more than the two specimens 
obtained, both of which were shot in December at China- 
Ba-keer, as they were feeding on the extensive sand banks 
in that locality, in company with a large flock of Sand 
Plovers. It bears a striking general resemblance to specimens 
of Totanus canescens, Gmelin, from which, however, as well as from 
all other Indian species belonging to the same sub-family, 
it differs conspicuously, in the comparatively much longer, 
broader, and more massive bill, in the much sherter length of 
tarsus, as well as in the unusual fact of the three anterior toes 
being united to each other by a membrane. 
The following are the dimensions and a description of the 
bird founded upon the measurements recorded in the flesh of 
the two specimens obtained at China-Ba-keer :— 
se a 
Py g i 8 EB a SE 
4 = wo | os g 26 Seacphre ier oes | ok 
be 3 5 3 a A, Leal ace og 30 
a, = u =3s ~ 2 orn 25 S 
3 # = S é =o et eee, se yeas 
a aR faa) | S 
é 13-2 23°25 | 73 3:0 | 185 25 21 0 95 15 0°52 
Q | 12:9 | 223 | 7-0 30 | 1:65 2-2 1:93 | 086 | 14 0% 
In both specimens the irides are dark brown ; bill, horny 
yellow near the base, fading into dusky for the terminal half, 
which is tipped with black; legs and feet, dull ochreous 
yellow; claws, black. 
Feathers of crown, occiput, back of head, scapulars, and 
upper back, of a uniform cincreous grey, each with a dark 
central longitudinal stripe, which is darker and more pro- 
nounced in the interscapular region. Lower back, rump, and 
upper tail coverts, white, the feathers of these parts having 
near their extremities one or two ill-defined, dusky blotches, 
which on the upper tail coverts become developed into a pair 
of more or less clearly defined, V-shaped, transverse bars. 
Forehead and pree-orbital region of a much lighter corey 
and more mixed with white than the other portions of the 
head. The throat and front of the neck, the entire breast 
and abdomen, the under-tail coverts, as well as the axillary 
plumes and under-wing coverts are pure white. On the sides 
of the neck the feathers are also white, but each has here a 
dark narrow shaft stripe, thus giving a lineo-punctate appear- 
